Cabinet with aerosol sprayer



Aug. 6, 1963 N. CAMPBELL 3,100,066

CABINET WITH AEROSOL SPRAYER Filed March 22. 1962 NED 04/14/ 554;

INVEN TOR.

United States Patent 3,100,066 CABINET WITI-I AEROSOL SPRAYER Ned Campbell, 1447 E. 18th St., Los Angeles, (Ialif. Filed Mar. 22, 1962, Ser. No. 181,628 9 Claims. (Cl. 222-180) This invention relates to apparatus especially wellsuited for use in a bathroom and comprises means for discharging an aerosol into the room.

The invention is herein described as embodied in a portable cabinet for storing cleaning utensils and miscellaneous bathroom supplies. Within the cabinet is a container for an aerosol substance, preferably a liquid room deodorant. There is a door on one wall of the cabinet connected to a holder for a roll of paper towels or toilet paper, for example, to extend the holder out from the cabinet when the door is opened whereby the paper on the holder will be conveniently accessible. The aerosol container includes an ejector or pump operatively associated with the door to effect a discharge of aerosol into the room when the door is opened.

A general object of this invention is to provide apparatuses of the above-mentioned character which are simple and rugged in construction, easy and reliable in operation, convenient to use, and economical to manufacture.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will apear in .the course of the following pant of this specification wherein the details of construction and mode of operation of a preferred embodiment are described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet embodying this invention;

FIGURE 2 is a central vertical section through the cabinet on a larger. scale and taken upon a plane indicated by lines 22 on FIGURE 1; and

FIGURE 3 is a detailed section showing the movable parts in extended positions when the door of the cabinet is open.

Referring to the drawing in greater detail and with the use of reference numerals, the illustrated cabinet is designated generally by reference numeral 10, it comprising a rectangular casing formed of a front wall 12, rear wall 13, side walls 14 and 15, a bottom wall 16, land a top wall or lid 17. The lid is secured along its rear edge to the top of the rear wall 13 by hinges 19 on which the lid is swingable to an upwardly extended position rep-resented in broken lines at 24) in FIGURE 2. A pivotally mounted bracket 22 of a plurality of links holds the lid in its raised position. The bottom wall 16 has a plurality of swivel casters 24 making the cabinet portable. A bumper 25 of elastomer material encircles the bottom of the cabinet.

The cabinet is adapted to contain or mount miscellaneous items of household utensils and bathroom articles and supplies. For example, the illustrated cabinet has a towel rack 27 for a towel 28, the rack being mounted on the outside of the side walls and rear wall of the cabinet. The inside of the lid 17 has a mirror 29. Within the cabinet is a corner partition 30 for receiving a toilet brush 31 hanging from a hook 32. In the lower part of the cabinet there is sufficient space to accommodate miscellaneous cleaning supplies such as a pail (not shown) and cleaning brushes (not shown), these being placed upon a false bottom 34 having numerous apertures 35 spaced throughout its extent. The bottom wall 16 also has a plurality of vent openings 37 covered by screens 38. Also, a demountable ash tray 39 is contained in the cabinet.

In the upper part of the cabinet, there is a drawer or rack designated generally by reference numeral 40 and adapted to contain miscellaneous toilet articles and supplies, as, for instance, a roll of paper towels 41 and a stack of hand towels or wash cloths at 42 and soap. The

3,100,066 Patented Aug. 6, 1963 "ice rack 40 is slidable on a supporting shelf 44 in the cabinet forwardly and rearwardly with respect to the front wall 12, it being understood that the wall 12 is herein referred to as being a front wall merely for the purposes of convenience of reference and for distinguishing the same from other walls of the cabinet. The forward position of the rack is shown in FIGURE 3 and its rearward position in FIGURE 2. The front wall 12 has an opening 46 covered by -a door 47. The door 47 is swingable on hinges 49 between a vertical position closing the front wall opening 46 as shown in FIGURE 2 to a horizontally extending open position in FIGURE 3. A handle for the door is shown at 50, and the door has two windows 51. A lug 53 secured to the inside of the door has one end of a link 54 pivotally connected thereto with the other end of the link being pivotally connected to a lug 55' fastened on the rack 40 whereby opening the door to its FIGURE 3 position will pull the rack forwardly in the cabinet.

The front of the rack is adapted to mount two rolls of toilet paper side by side, only one of which appears at 57 in FIGURES 2 and 3. A concave front wall of the rack appears at 59, and the rack has a projection 60 extending forwardly from the middle of the concave front wall 59 to mount a horizontally extending rod 61 upon which the rolls of toilet paper 57 are held. The toilet paper holder 61 is aligned with the front wall opening 46 whereby when the door is opened to the FIGURE 3 position thereof, the rolls of toilet paper 57 will be extended out through the front wall opening where they are conveniently accessible.

The illustrated cabinet includes a cover 63 for the rear part of the cabinet, the cover being swingably secured with hinges 64 to the inside of the rear wall 13. A suitable bracket 65 serves to retain the cover 63 in raised position shown by the broken line representation thereof at 66 in FIGURE 2.

Within the cabinet is a tank 69 containing a suitable aerosol for treating the air of the bathroom as, for example, a pressurized supply of liquid deodorant. Tank 69 is supported by a channel 70 extending from the side wall 15 and having a plate 71 upon which the tank is seated, the plate 71 being adjustable up and down in the channel 70 as with a screw 72. Above the container is a fixture 74 secured on the side wall 15, and it has a vertically extending bore 75 for slidably receiving a plunger 76 of a pump 77 adapted to be fastened to the top of the tank 69. The head of the plunger is designated by numeral 78 and projects above the top of the fixture 74. The pump 77 has an outlet orifice 80. The pump 77 and the tank 69 are of conventional design, and the details of construction thereof do not form a part of this invention, it being sufiicient for the purposes of this description to mention that when the pump plunger is depressed the pump will discharge a fine spray or mist of the aerosol liquid from the tank out through the pump orifice 80. When the tank becomes empty, it can be replaced by a full tank as by lowering the plate 71 thus to lower the top of the tank from its seat within the fixture 74 to permit easy removal of the tank. It is not necessary to remove the pump 77, it being connected to the top of the tank 69 in a conventional manner.

The fixture 74 for the tank 69 has a port 81 in alignment with the outlet orifice of the pump 78. A tube 83, secured as with brackets 84 to the inside of the side wall 15, extends forwardly from the port 81 to the inside of the front wall 12, a forward leg 85 of the tube extending across the front wall. The front wall 12 has a horizontally extending series of openings 87 spaced below the door 47. Each of these receives a sleeve 88 defining outlet orifices for flow of aerosol spray from the pump orifice 80, through the tube 83, and out through the orifices 88 To operate the pump-78 in consequence of opening the door 47 thereby to eject a fine mist or spray of the aerosol deodorant out from the orifices 88-, there is a roller 90 on an arm 91 which extends from the rear of the rack 40. The'roller is arranged to engage the head 7 8 of the pump plunger and to depress the plunger when the rack is pulled forwardly in the cabinet. The position of the roller 90 when engagement with the pump head 77 is shown in broken lines in FIGURE 3 at 94. As the door is closed, it moves the rack rearwardly in the cabinet and again the roller 90 engages and depresses the plunger of the pump 77 thereby to effect another discharge of aerosol deodorant out through the front orifices 88.

The hinges 49 of the door are preferably spring loaded so that the door will close easily. In order to maintain the door in its open position and to maintain the rack 40 shifted forwardly in the cabinet, the rack has a latch 95 releasably engageable with a complementary catch 96 on the inside of the front wall 12. The door in being closed is lifted or swung upwardly and inwardly toward the front wall thus disengaging the latch and catch elements 95 and 96 and moving the rack rearwardly. in the cabinet.

While the particular cabinet with aerosol sprayer herein shown and disclosed in detail is fully capable of attaining the objects and providing the advantages hereinbefore stated, it is to be understood'that it is merely illustrative of the presently preferred embodiments of the invention and that no limitations are intended to the details of construction or design herein shown other than as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1-. A bathroom cabinet comprising a casing adapted to contain various articles useful in abathroom including a rack for toilet paper and having an opening'for access to saidrack, a door normally closing said access opening, the casing having an outlet opening for an aerosol, means in said casing for removably supporting an aerosol container, an ejector operatively associated with said container for effecting a discharge from said aerosol container through said outlet opening, and means engageable with the ejector and connected to the door for operating the ejector upon movement of the door.

2. A readily movable roller-supported bathroom cabinet comprising a casing. for containing bathroom supplies and having an access opening to said supplies, a door for opening and closing the. casing opening, the casing having an outlet opening for an aerosol deodorant, aerosol container removably mounted within the casing for a supply of room-deodorant aerosol substance, an ejector operatively associated with said container for effecting a discharge of said substance through said outlet opening, and means engageable with the ejector and con nected to the door for operating the ejector upon opening ofthe door to provide accessv to an item of bathroom supplies inthe casing.

3. A bathroom cabinet comprising a casing having an access opening, a rack for carrying an item of toilet supplies, means for supporting the rack in the casing to move toward and away from said access opening and to present said item extending through said access opening for convenient access to said item when the rack has been moved toward said access opening, a door for opening and closing the casing opening, means interconnecting the door and the rack to effect movement of the rack toward the access opening as the door is opened and to effect movement of the rack away from the access opening as the door is closed, the casing having an outlet opening for an aerosol deodorant, a container removably mounted within the casing for a supply of room-deodorant aerosol substance, an ejector operatively associated with said container for effecting a discharge of said substance through said outlet opening, and means engageable with the ejector and connected to said rack for operating the ejector upon movement of the door.

4. A portable-bathroom cabinet for containing miscellaneous bathroom supplies and cleaning utensils, the cabinet comprising a casing having a liftable lid 'for access to the inside of the casing and having an opening in the front wall of the casing, a rack for carrying an item of toilet supplies, meansfor' supporting the rack in the casing to move forwardly and reanwardly with respect to said front wall opening and to present said item extending through said opening for convenient access to said item when the rack has been moved forwardly in the casing, a door for opening and closing the trout wall opening, means interconnecting the door and the rack to effect forward movement of the rack when the door is opened and rearward movement when the door is closed, a Wall of the casing having an outlet opening for discharge of anaerosol deodorant, a container removably mounted within the casing and adapted to contain a pressurized supply of atomiza'ble liquid room-deodorant, and atomizing pump on the container having an outlet orifice directed toward said outlet opening for effecting a discharge of said deodorant through said outlet opening, and means on the rack for operating the pump when the door is opened.

5. A bathroom cabinet according to claim 4 in which said rack mounts a holder for a roll of toilet paper and said item is said rol l of toilet paper.

6. A bathroom cabinet according to claim 4 in which said door is secured to said front wall with spring hinges and the door is swingable downwardly and outwardly away from said casing opening.

7. A bathroom cabinet according to claim 4 in which said door and rack interconnecting means comprises a link pivotally secured at one end thereof to the inside of said door and at its other end to said rack.

8. A bathroom cabinet according to claim 4 and comprising a tube extending from adjacent said pump orifice tosaid deodorant outlet opening.

9. A bathroom cabinetaccording. to claim 4 and in which said deodorant-outlet opening is positioned below the door.

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1. A BATHROOM CABINET COMPRISING A CASING ADAPTED TO CONTAIN VARIOUS ARTICLES USEFUL IN A BATHROOM INCLUDING A RACK FOR TOILET PAPER AND HAVING AN OPENING FOR ACCESS TO SAID RACK, A DOOR NORMALLY CLOSING SAID ACCESS OPENING, THE CASING HAVING AN OUTLET OPENING FOR AN AEROSOL, MEANS IN SAID CASING FOR REMOVABLY SUPPORTING AN AEROSOL CONTAINER, AN EJECTOR OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID CONTAINER FOR EFFECTING A DISCHARGE FROM SAID AEROSOL CONTAINER THROUGH SAID OUTLET OPENING, AND MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH THE EJECTOR AND CONNECTED TO THE DOOR FOR OPERATING THE EJECTOR UPON MOVEMENT OF THE DOOR. 